MadisonMDS
At an airfield/10.8 mi away/1,709 ft/56 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Weather/South Dakota/Nunda
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Nunda until 8 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 8 degrees cooler: a high of 48° after 56° today.
Now. Nunda is 44° and mostly cloudy at 10 PM. With the wind it feels like 36°. The dew point is 37°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 18 mph, gusting to 29 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 37° by 8 AM, under cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 71°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 48°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 24 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 30°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the southeast. A planet shines with a steady light where the stars around it twinkle. The Orionids meteor shower is active, peaking around Oct 21: at its peak, up to about 20 meteors an hour can be seen from a dark site. Cloud is forecast to cover most of the night, so the sky will be hard to see. The day is 11 hours 2 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Nunda, South Dakota.
Air quality
Index 34, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Brookings (SD), 16 miles off.
Yesterday measured 21, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.20 in in the last 24 hours, 0.22 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 2 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Nunda, South DakotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 8 instruments nearest Nunda, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 9.2 miles away.
measured now6 instruments
MadisonMDS
At an airfield/10.8 mi away/1,709 ft/56 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Sd RWIS ArlingtonSD504
Beside a road/11.0 mi away/1,791 ft/26 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Big Sioux River 10 SE BrookingsBRKS2
At a river or reservoir gauge/13.2 mi away/1,558 ft/207 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station KF0AITKF0AIT
In a volunteer observer's own ground/15.3 mi away/1,670 ft/95 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Eros Data CenterS2072
At a soil climate station/35.5 mi away/1,551 ft/214 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Sioux Falls 14 NNE04990
At a climate reference station/35.8 mi away/1,594 ft/171 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Arlington 9.0 SSWSD-KY-10
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.2 mi away/1,777 ft/12 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
MadisonMRFS2
At a cooperative observer's station/15.7 mi away/1,742 ft/23 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 10.8 mi from Nunda, South Dakota. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:15 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 2,900 ft; the ceiling is 2,900 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
44.6 F with a dew point of 37.4 F, 76 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,700 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,900 ft.
From the northwest (310 degrees) at 21 mph, gusting 29 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 39 mph.
The full report of Madison, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Madison (MRFS2), 15.7 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 09:00. measured daily
24 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.